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SHORT BUT SWEET: BÖLZER —“SOMA”
A deep rumbling noise could be heard rising up from the bowels of the interhole yesterday as the name BÖLZER! was simultaneously growled by reviewers who had just received their advance copies of the...
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FOCUS ON BLOOD HARVEST (Part 1): CEREMONIAL, GHOULGOTHA
The Swedish label Blood Harvest Records plans to release a series of 7″ vinyl EPs between now and year-end. I’ve received advance digital versions of five of them and thought I’d put down a few...
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FOCUS ON BLOOD HARVEST (Part 2): ASCENDED DEAD, ENERGUMEN, KURNUGIA
The Swedish label Blood Harvest Records plans to release a series of 7″ EPs between now and year-end. Yesterday I reviewed the first two of those EPs to reach the label from the pressing plant (here)....
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SHORT BUT SWEET: LEPROUS DIVINITY —“ENSLAVEMENT”
(DGR reviews the debut EP by Leprous Divinity.) Given that California has a huge population, you could rightly assume that this state dishes out a humongous amount of music on a daily basis. Not...
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SHORT BUT SWEET: LESSER LIFE —“GO HENCE UNTO A SWIFT AND BITTER DEATH”
(DGR reviews the second EP by Lesser Life from Chapel Hill.) I don’t know exactly who recommended Chapel Hill, North Carolina-based Lesser Life, but I know that their release The Light Will Never...
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KHEMMIS AND GOMORRAH
Earlier today I posted a review of the Denver Black Sky 2014 festival, which I had the pleasure of attending last weekend with a fine group of old and new friends. I was already a fan of most of the...
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SHORT BUT SWEET: IMBIBED BY THE QUASAR —“DEMO 2014″
(DGR wrote this review of the first demo by a Sacramento group who have apparently been Imbibed By the Quasar.) Imbibed By The Quasar are a new Sacramento-based death metal band, one born from the...
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SHORT BUT SWEET: VILE REGRESSION —“EMPIRES”
(Here we have yet another review by DGR, and this time the subject is the new album by an Irish band named Vile Regression.) Even though it’s probably a bit formulaic at this point, I still love to...
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SHORT BUT SWEET: WEED PRIEST —“WORSHIP”
(In this post DGR reviews the 2014 EP by Ireland’s Weed Priest.) Let’s sit down for a moment and have a quick heart to heart chat. I’m not the most worldly when it comes to heavy metal, but if you...
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SHORT BUT SWEET: SOULLESS CARNAGE, BLOODSTRIKE, SUMERLANDS
Here are three short reviews of three short releases that I think are really good. I’ve been meaning to say something about two of them for the last week or two, and the third I only heard for the...
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SHORT BUT SWEET: OUTER HEAVEN, DRONES FOR QUEENS, OCCULT 45
It’s rare for us to look back over our shoulders at releases from past years (or even past months). We have too damned much trouble trying to stay abreast of current releases. But I’ve recently...
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SHORT BUT SWEET: NOISEM —“CONSUMED”
(NCS contributor Leperkahn recently winged his way to France for a period of study abroad — and on the way he penned a couple of reviews, including this one.) I was just about to get really...
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SCULPTED IN TAR: MOLOCH, HAGGATHA, SLUG SALT LAVA
In this globe-trotting post I’m reviewing a recent split release by Moloch from Nottingham, England, and Haggatha from Vancouver, Canada, as well as a January 2014 EP by Slug Salt Lava from Istanbul,...
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SHORT BUT SWEET: PHOBIA —“GRIND CORE”
(In this post Leperkahn reviews the new EP by Orange County’s Phobia.) Phobia may have just won the prize for the most hilariously literal release title in existence. They are releasing a new 7” via...
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SHORT BUT SWEET: MAZE OF TERROR —“SKULLCRUSHER”
For the music reviewed in this post, we need to turn back the clock. In the first place, the music was released more than two years ago, in June 2012. In the second place, the unholy spirit that...
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SHORT BUT SWEET: ILL BREED —“BLACK PANE / BLISTERED”
You’re really not going to find anything better today that costs you nothing — including even the air you’re sucking in — than this two-song single released yesterday by a band from Arizona named Ill...
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AN NCS PREMIERE: OBSCURE BURIAL —“NIGHT QUEEN”
When I used to think of current Finnish death metal (not the melodic kind), I tended to think of crushing death/doom, or perhaps a few famous death/grind deviants. Mine eyes have now been opened...
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SHORT BUT SWEET: VEGAS, HELLSTORM, NAPALM RAID
Five years ago I didn’t own any 7″ vinyl records. I can’t even remember reading about any 7″ vinyl records five years ago, at least in the realm of metal (though I hasten to add that the darker,...
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SHORT BUT SWEET: A LEVIATHAN / KRIEG SPLIT
I’ve been waiting for this one anxiously. And then, as (bad) luck would have it, when my beautiful pumpkin orange vinyl copy of this 7″ split arrived late last week from Holy Terror Records, my...
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TWO BLASTS FROM CALIFORNIA: WORSE AND CALCIFIED BIRD CARCASS
(Here we have DGR’s review of two grind blasts.) WORSE Worse hail from lovely San Francisco, California and are a band who have been kicking around in my inbox for some time — a result of my random...
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